Grade 3
Meet the 3rd Grade Teaching Team
Laurie Perison - lperison@kentschools.net
Elena Sheets - esheets@kentschools.net
Jennifer Silman - jsilman@kentschools.net
Heidi Roeder - hroeder@kentschools.net
Kristin Blake - kblake@kentschools.net
Cristin Wilbur - cwilbur@kentschools.net
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Math - Bridges in Mathematics
Unit 1
Focus: Addition and Subtraction Patterns
Overview of the topics to be covered in Unit 1
Key Vocabulary
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Sum - The total, answer to an addition problem
At Home Support Games (Click on the name to play the game)
Deep Sea Duel - Collect cards that add up to a specified sum. Choose how many cards, types of numbers, and levels of strategy.
Key Strategies
- Number Rack
- Number Line (Jumps of 10)
- Break Apart Numbers
Unit 2
Focus: Introduction to Multiplication
Overview of the topics to be covered in Unit 2 - Facts to 10 x 10
Key Vocabulary
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Array -a way of arranging things in rows and columns
Key Strategies
- Array Models
- Thinking "groups of"
- Repeated Addition
- Skip Counting (2,4,6,8...)
At Home Support Games (Click on the name to play the game)
Bunny Times - Become confident in facts up to 12 x 12 using visual models that stress the conceptual aspects of multiplication.
Factris - In this Tetris-like game, players arrange falling blocks that can be reconstructed into different arrays. Doing so allows them to explore array building and factorization.
Unit 3
Focus: Multi-Digit Addition & Subtraction
Overview of the topics to be covered:
Continue to practice addition and subtraction
Round multi-digit numbers and estimate their sums and differences
Add and subtract 2- and 3-digit numbers using algorithms and other methods
Key Vocabulary
- Rounding- approximating a number to a specific place value
- Estimate- a close guess of an actual value
- Nearest Ten- rounding to tens place (50,80,20)
- Nearest Hundred- rounding to hundreds place (100,600,900)
Key Strategies
- Think of Base Ten pieces or number line to round
- Estimate Sums by rounding the number and adding
- Subtracting on a number line -taking away big jumps with place value (see document)
- Standard Algorithm
At Home Support Games (Click on the name to play the game)
Soccer Math - here are three different levels of difficulty: Tens & Hundreds, Tens, Hundreds & Thousands, and Tens, Hundreds, Thousands & Decimals. Get 5 correct in-a-row to take penalty shots!
Astro Blaster - Rounding & Estimation, Sums & Differences, Basic Facts. Destroy asteroids that contain the correct number in these math rounding games.
Math At Home Challenges - Challenges provided by our math curriculum and free to use at home
Unit 4
Focus: Measurement and Fractions
Overview of the topics to be covered:
Tell time and calculate elapsed time
Measure mass and volume to solve problems
Model and compare fractions in different ways
Key Vocabulary
- Analog Clock
- Digital Clock
- Half-hour
- Fraction
- Unit Fraction
- Congruent
- Equivalent
- Metric System (and all its parts)
- Customary System (and all its parts)
Key Strategies
- Numberline for both time and fractions
- Pattern Blocks to model fractions
At Home Support Games (Click on the name to play the game)
Hickory, Dickory, Dock -Feed the mouse and avoid the cat by correctly reading the analog clock. Includes half past, quarter to, and quarter past.
Match Analog and Digital Clocks- Match the analog clock to the digital clock by selecting from hour or half-hour intervals.
Mostly Postie - Click and drag package onto scales and enter weight in grams or kilograms
Liquid Measure- Click and drag pipe connectors and water containers so that the amount of liquid specified in a jug will drain into a container with the correct capacity.
Pecking Order - Arrange numbers from least to greatest on a number line. Work quickly and accurately to better your score. Choose from fractions, fractions & decimals, and fractions/decimals/percents.
The Ruler Game- Click on a ruler to identify the location of a given number. Choose from the following levels: wholes, halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths
Unit 5
Focus: Multiplication and Division
Overview of the topics to be covered:
Solve multiplication and division problems
Calculate the area of rectangles
Use rectangular arrays to model and solve multiplication and division problems
Key Vocabulary
- Area
- Fact Family
- Product
- Factor
- Quotient
- Dividend
- Divisor
- Array
- Row
- Column
- Dimension
- Equation
Key Strategies
- Labeling dimension of an array
- Patterns of Multipication
At Home Support Games (Click on the name to play the game)
Bunny Times - Players determine the number of carrots in a field using the array model of multiplication.
Meteor Multiplication - As meteors with multiplication problems approach a star station showing a given product, fire them down by clicking on the expression that goes with the product.
Zoo Designer- Click and drag a shape tool to create enclosures that are the correct area and/or perimeter for animals at the zoo
Unit 6
Focus: Geometry
Overview of the topics to be covered:
Describe and classify 2D shapes, especially quadrilaterals
Calculate area and perimeter
Represent fractions as parts of a whole shape
Key Vocabulary
- Acute Angle
- Obtuse Angle
- Right Angle
- Angle
- Closed Figure
- Open Figure
- Line of Symmetry
- Parallel
- Perpendicular
- Parallelogram
- Polygon
- Quadrilateral
- Trapezoid
- Side
- Attribute
- Vertex/ Corner
Key Strategies
- Drawing Shapes
- Formula for Area
- (L X W)
At Home Support Games (Click on the name to play the game)
Polygon Playground - Drag shapes to explore polygons and create pictures, tessellations, symmetrical objects, and patterns.
Shape Explorer- Calculate area and perimeter for a given shape and type in the correct answer.
Zoo Designer- Click and drag a shape tool to create enclosures that are the correct area and/or perimeter for animals at the zoo
Fundations - Reading/Writing/ Phonics/Spelling
Unit 1
Topics:
- Closed Syllables
- Closed Syllable Exceptions
- New Sound "tch - catch - /ch/"
- W and QU change the sound of the letter a (as in wash, squash).
- Sound Alike Words - Write/Right No/Know
Unit 4
Topics:
- Vowel - Consonant- E exceptions
- Adding suffixes
Unit 2
Topics:
- Suffixes
- Identifying Baseword
- 1-1-1 Words (has 1 closed syllable, 1 vowel, and 1 consonant after the vowel)
- Spelling Rule- when to double the final consonant
Unit 5
Topics:
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Schwa- unexpected vowel sounds
